Played by Joan Trimble and Valerie Trimble
Sonata...Arnold Cooke
Sonata...Stravinsky
(BBC recording)
Arnold Cooke's Sonata (1937) is dedicated to Adolph Hallis and Franz Reizenstein.
The first movement begins Andante and leads to a vigorous Allegro; the second movement, Larghetto, has a graceful middle section in nine-eight time; the greater part of the finale, Molto vivace, is in the style of a Tarantella.
The Sonata by Stravinsky, written in 1943-44, has a smooth-flowing opening movement (Moderato), followed by a Theme (Largo), with four Variations, leading to a short Allegretto for finale.
(H.R.)

Max Beloff reviews Soviet Russia and the World, the third volume of The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, by E. H Carr
(The recorded broadcast of April 24)

Quartet In D, Op. 20 No. 4 Quartet in C. Op. 54 No. played by the Element String Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Sylvia Cleaver (violin.)
Dorothy Hemming (viola)
Norman Jones (cello)

by John Ford
Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster

'Tis pity indeed that John Ford's most celebrated and most powerful play should be so handicapped by its unnecessarily ugly and completely ridiculous title. Completely ridiculous because it is a completely false description of Annabella, who is not deliberately and certainly not professionally immoral. She and her brother Giovanni are 'rapid falcons in a snare,' an ill-starred boy and girl caught in one of nature's most insidious traps. When they are not blinded by their passion they see the nature of their sin with hideous clearness. They are pitiful in their remorse, and their end is high tragedy. Indeed, the whole play is cast in a mould of high tragedy.
(S.W.)

(Leader, J. Mou. land Begbie)
Conductor, Ian Whyte

Talk by Ernest G. Neal
For many years Ernest Neal has beea studying badgers In this talk he draws on his observations to give an interpretation of their behaviour.
(The recorded broadcast of Aug. 5)